“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” — Carl Jung

David Kessler (he, him)
Co-Founder & Clinical Director

David holds a master's degree in Counseling Psychology from Northwestern University at the Family Institute. As a Center for Contextual Change alumnus, he has over a decade of experience providing clinical services to families, adolescents, young adults, and adults in a number of different settings (hospital, community mental health, and private practice). David enjoys working with a diverse client population in both individual and group contexts.

David is an expert on ADHD and Trauma and consults on local and national levels, developing individual and systemic interventions to increase the effectiveness of therapeutic and scholastic goals.

Throughout the therapeutic process, David looks to find ways to help empower his clients to lead personally fulfilling lives. To meet this end, David utilizes the Collaborative Change Model (developed by Mary Jo Barrett) as a framework to collaborate and provide transparent care. Within this relational framework David interweaves behavioral, psychodynamic, and existential therapies to encourage clients to explore both the past and present in hopes that each client will uncover insight into their thoughts, actions, and emotions that will allow them to create a context for change. David's specific focus is centered on trauma, treatment of trauma, ADHD, and learning differences.

While his passion for therapy is what drives him, David is also dedicated to clinical training, consultation, and education. He has previous experience working on outcome research for the Center for Contextual Change as well as a descriptive analysis of ADHD and PTSD treatment implications.